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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust -
Wakefield

Job details

Part-time
£39,959 - £48,117 a year

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Company pension
Car scheme

Qualifications

Leadership
Teaching

Full job description

Contact information

If you would like further information or wish to arrange a visit, please contact:

[email protected]

Tima Amirkamali (Adult SLT Team Lead) or Shorufa YasminIqbal (Community Team Clinical Lead)
01924 543397

About the role

We have a great opportunity at MYTT to welcome a new band 6 SLT in to our community service via our band 5-6 development framework. Our Community Adult Speech & Language Therapy Team offers the opportunity to work with a diverse and rewarding caseload, shape community practice, and be part of a supportive team that prioritises your ideas, your wellbeing, and your development.

Prospective candidates are welcome to visit or discuss further. You will have completed NQSLT competencies and be working autonomously with a dysphagia caseload.

This is a career enhancing opportunity for an experienced, suitably qualified, skilled and dynamic SLT to work across the Wakefield and district community, delivering highquality care for adults with communication and swallowing needs. The post holder is required to be an autonomous and motivated individual who is keen to further their skills and development through self-led learning and reflection.

You will work across a range of settings including patients’ homes, nursing and residential care, and outpatient clinics. You will manage a varied, clinically rewarding caseload, including stroke, brain injury, progressive neurological conditions, dementia, and respiratory presentations. You will join a skilled and welcoming team who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care.

The Adult SLT service at Mid Yorkshire is dynamic, supportive and committed to highquality care. You will receive regular supervision, CPD opportunities and access to inhouse learning and CPDs. Our service offers Ampcare, EMST and Videofluoroscopy and FEES assessment. Internal exposure to these specialist areas may be available depending on service capacity and needs, with opportunities to observe and gain referrerlevel skills and knowledge where appropriate.

We are a friendly, supportive and highly skilled team who live the Mid Yorkshire values and are proud of the service we provide.

Professional and clinical development

Regular supervision and access to CPD opportunities and internal specialist learnings
Supportive, friendly and experienced colleagues
A dynamic, innovative service that welcomes clinicianled ideas
A varied and rewarding community caseload
Opportunities to develop leadership, teaching and training skills

Working Hours

The vacancy is funded for 30 hours.

Main duties

The main duties of this role include:

The post holder will work across the Wakefield and district community to provide a high-quality service for our patients who have swallow and communication difficulties. Therefore effective independent caseload management skills, experience and knowledge in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with stroke, brain injury, progressive neuro, dementia, and respiratory presentations etc. are required.

The post holder will engage with huddles and regular clinical and service meetings to optimise patient care.

The post holder will develop their leadership, professional and specialist clinical skills and knowledge through a supported and structured framework with a view to converting to full band 6 SLT duties within 6-11 months.

Our band 6 SLT colleagues' role include clinical prioritisation and caseload oversight, finding solutions and identifying areas for improvement, providing specialist level clinical advice and guidance to colleagues and the MDT, supervising and supporting junior colleagues and students and leading with or contributing to service developments, SOPs and audits, plus developing and providing Trust wide training.

All SLT colleagues in the team receive regular supervision.

Essential person specification requirements

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
Licence to practice
Evidence of successful completion of relevant short courses in e.g. dysphagia and in acquired disorders of communication
Registration with The Health Care Professions Council
Completion of RCSLT Newly Qualified competencies and certificate

Please ensure you review the job description and person specification attached for further essential and desirable criteria.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute and community trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance:
We understand that more applicants are using AI technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Our benefits

Access to the NHS pension plan
Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
Extensive benefits and support, including:
Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Home electronics scheme
Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
Career progression, training and support

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